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Mehdi's Morning Memo: RIP Lee Rigby

Huffington Post | Mehdi Hasan | Posted 24.05.2013 | UK Politics

Read More: Mehdi's Morning Memo, Mehdis-Morning-Memo, Jeremy Hunt, David Cameron, Lee Rigby, Theresa May, Eric Pickles, Nick Clegg, Snoopers Charter, Net Migration, Immigration, Obama, Gps, Obama Drone Strikes, Woolwich Attack, Michael Adebolajo, Nhs, UK Politics News

The five things you need to know on 24 May 2013... RIP LEE RIGBY RIP Drummer Lee Rigby, who was named yesterday evening as the victim of Wednesd...

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Could A Pill Cut Your Drinking By Two Thirds On A Night Out?

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Heavy Drinking, Alcoholism, Alcoholic, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Gps, Nalmefene, Drug, Pill, Drink, Nhs, UK Lifestyle News

A "helpful" new drug which could help problem drinkers reduce the amount of alcohol they consume will today become available to UK patients. If dep...

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Police Plan To Tag Dementia Patients Slammed

PA | Posted 01.05.2013 | UK

Read More: Elderly, UK News, GPS Tracking, Alzheimer's, Gps, Dementia, UK News

Elderly care campaigners have branded a police force's decision to buy tracking devices for dementia patients as "completely wrong". Sussex Police ...

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'A Person Trying To Molest A Girl Will Get The Shock Of His Life': Anti-Rape Underwear Created By Indian Students

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 03.04.2013 | UK

A trio of Indian students say they have created “anti-rape underwear” that will deliver electric shocks and alert police and parents to potential ...

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Placebo Study 'May Not Be Real'

The Huffington Post UK | Andrea Mann | Posted 21.03.2013 | UK Comedy

Read More: Spoof Health News, Placebos, Topicalol, Pics & Giggles, Health News, Gps, Spoof News, UK Health News, Nhs, UK Comedy News

A study which claims that 97% of doctors have prescribed placebos may not be a real study, it has been claimed. "The research shows that placebo us...

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Healthy Dose of Social Media Is Just What the Doctor Ordered

Holly Alsop | Posted 23.03.2013 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Social Media, Twitter, Gps, Royal College of GPs, Nhs, Health, Healthcare, UK Lifestyle News

There are huge benefits to be gained from the use of social media. The access sites like Twitter provide for GPs greatly enhances medical networking, marketing of resources, and real-time engagement in current clinical discussions. However, has the surge in social media use by medical professionals resulted in positive outcomes for patients and the relationship with their GP?

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Unleash the Data! Why Patients Need the NHS to Set Their Data Free

Rachel Carrell | Posted 28.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: NHS Reforms, Open Data, UK Lifestyle News, Big Data, Data Mining, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Gps, Patients, Doctors Health Care Reform, Remote Healthcare, Nhs, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News

The potential in health is absolutely enormous. With free-flowing and reliable data we could better understand the causes of illness, identify the best ways to treat, and eliminate many of the irritating inefficiencies that today seem to just be part of being ill.

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Teen Suffered Heart Failure From 'Having Ears Pierced'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 04.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Read More: Endocarditis, UK News, Heart Transplant, UK Students, Gps, UK Health, Schoolgirls, Nhs, Heart Failure, UK Universities & Education News

A teenager who thought she had indigestion was told by doctors she had just days to live, after being diagnosed with heart failure that may have been ...

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Why Are Complaints About Britain's Doctors Soaring?

PA | Posted 18.09.2012 | UK

Read More: Doctors and Patients, UK News, General Medical Council, Doctors, Surgeons, Gps, Patients, Nhs, UK News

Complaints about doctors have reached a record high, the General Medical Council (GMC) said. Since 2009, the number of complaints has soared - and ...

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Andrew Lansley Prescribes An Extra Day's Work For GPs

PA | Posted 15.06.2012 | UK

Read More: Hospitals, Surgeons, Gps, Health Care, Andrew Lansley, Nhs, UK News

Andrew Lansley has called on GPs who are planning to take industrial action in a row over pensions to work an extra day to clear their backlog. The...

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Road To Nowhere: Satnavs 'Make People Worse At Driving'

PA | Posted 07.06.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Gadgets, UK-Innovation, UK News, Gps, Satellite, Satnavs, UK Tech News

Satnav systems sometimes send motorists the wrong way but they can also impair their driving ability, according to a study by academics. Drivers' p...

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People More Likely To Admit Guilty Secrets By Text (Rather Than Phone)

The Huffington Post UK | Sarah O'Meara | Posted 17.05.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Read More: Health News, UK News, Gps, Slideexpand, Wellbeing, Texting, UK Lifestyle News

According to a new study to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, prophets of doom may...

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A Third Of Doctors Fob Off Young People With Cancer Symptoms

PA | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK

Read More: UK News, Cancer, Gps, Health, Nhs, UK News

Two thirds (61%) of young people with cancer visited GPs with at least one of the most common cancer symptoms - yet for a third (28%) their doctors to...

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Uncovering History's Hidden Secrets

Dr. Mike Lynch | Posted 09.06.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Meaning-based technology can be used to unlock some of our country's most valuable assets -- its literature and the "unknown unknown" which are yet to be discovered.

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TomTom GPS Hit By Leap Year Glitch

Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 03.06.2012 | UK Tech

Read More: Cars, Driving, Gadgets, Gps, UK News, Tomtom, Tech News, UK Tech News

The leap year has thrown the car navigation system TomTom into utter disarray. The in-car GPS system is displaying a grey screen and a message say...

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Controversial NHS Reforms Passed

PA | Posted 21.03.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: NHS Reforms, UK News, Nurses, Andrew Lansley, NHS Budgets, Rcn, UK Social Care, Nick Clegg, Doctors, UK Health, Gps, Social Care, Nhs, UK Politics News

The passage of the coalition's controversial NHS reforms would prove to be a "cause of significant regret", according to the Royal College of Nursing ...

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Electronic Tags To Check Whether Offenders Have Been Drinking

PA | Posted 17.05.2012 | UK

Read More: Electronic Tags, Gps, UK News, UK Crime, UK News

Hi-tech new tags with GPS technology could soon be used to monitor the movements of offenders serving community sentences, and even to check whether t...

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Dying To Get Quality Care: GPs Slam Local Hospitals Over Poor Services

The Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 15.02.2012 | UK

Read More: Patinets Association, Gps, Pulse Magazine, UK News, Patient Care, Clare Gerada, Nhs, UK News

One in 10 GPs believe their patients may have died as a result of poor hospital care, according to a survey that paints a "bleak picture" of care arou...

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The Madness of King Cameron

Tiernan Douieb | Posted 13.04.2012 | UK Comedy

While I'm no expert in psychological behaviour, I'm left wondering just which one of these Cameron and Lansley are suffering from. Ever since announcing the healthcare reform bill some months ago it has been opposed by over 250,000 medical health professionals, nearly every opposition party, every official medical association, the general public and even, this past week, members of the Conservative Party who would usually jump at such proposals.

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GPs Attack Health And Social Care Bill: 'Damaging, Unnecessary And Expensive'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: Reforms, UK News, Nurses, Medical Union, David Cameron, Doctors, Gps, News, NHS Reforms, Health and Social Care Bill, UK Politics News

The UK's largest medical royal college of GPs has launched a scathing attack on proposed NHS reforms, branding them "damaging, unnecessary and expensi...

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Doctors Should Lose Power To Sign Off Patients Long-Term, Says Tory Minister

PA | Posted 19.01.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Lord Freud, Sick Leave, Welfare Reform, National Health Service, Doctor, Gps, Tory, UK Politics News

Stripping GPs of the power to sign patients off on long-term sick leave could lead to "fewer wasted lives", a Tory minister has insisted. Lord Freu...

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GPs Could Lose Responsibility For Sick Notes

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 18.01.2012 | UK Politics

Read More: UK News, Gps, Health Care, UK Politics News

Sick people could be signed off long-term work by an independent panel rather than their family doctor, a report is likely to say next week....

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70% Of GPs Concerned About NHS Reforms Conflicts Of Interests

PA | Posted 23.12.2011 | UK Politics

Seven out of 10 GPs in England are concerned about conflicts of interest resulting from the Government's NHS reforms, according to a new study. The...

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European Galileo Satellites Launch On Russian Rocket

Posted 21.12.2011 | UK Tech

Read More: Global Positioning System, European Union, Galileo, European Space Agency, Gps, Space, UK Tech News

Europe's dependence on the United States' Global Positioning System is coming to an end, with the launch this Friday of the first two satellites of th...

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GoogleMaps Used To Chart Typhoid In Nepal

The Huffington Post UK | Melanie Hick | Posted 14.12.2011 | UK Tech

Read More: UK Technology New, Biology, Nepal, Disease, UK Tech, Travel, Gps, Technology, Google Maps, UK Tech News

Google's mapping technology, GoogleMaps, is great for finding the best route home or the location of a shop or restaurant. Now it's being used to ...

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